Examples

New York neighbors, we are told, were once startled by the "fearsome sounds" of Mitchell and her lover of the time, the painter Michael Goldberg, "trying to kill each other," while friends were astonished "when she turned up . . . with bruises and black eyes half-concealed by sunglasses."

Caravaggio's version of the scene is a masterpiece of economy, the transfiguring moment described in Acts embodied solely by Saul, his mount, and a half-concealed elderly groom, the trio tightly packed into the available space.